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February
2021
Internet2 Community News Spotlight – February 2021 Edition
By Sara Aly, Internet2 Communications Manager
This monthly feature spotlights timely community stories from Internet2 members, celebrating their achievements and sharing important announcements around their efforts to fulfill their research, education, and scholarship missions.
- Study Analyzes Infrastructure Needs of HBCUs, TCUs and HSIs (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
- Mastering Routing Security at APRICOT 2021 (MANRS)
- Chilean Astronomical Broker Allows Real-time Studies of the Dynamic Universe (In The Field Blog)
- NASA to Honor ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson During Headquarters Naming Ceremony
- Training, Infrastructure Are Top Cyber Concerns for Minority-Serving Colleges (Fierce Education)
- LoLa Brings Back Live Musical Collaboration in Flint, Michigan (US Ignite)
- Diversifying Computer Science, One Cohort at a Time (Duke)
- Professor Margaret Martonosi Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (HPC Wire)
- When the Crime Scene is a Computer: How Virginia Tech’s IT Security Office Uses Forensics to Solve Cyber Incidents
- Huskies Invited to Check Out Top Vendors as Part of LMS Review (NIU Today)
- Podcast: Low-latency Broadband Powers a Michigan Music Masterclass (Light Reading)
- Know an Innovator Who’s Made Groundbreaking Contributions to the Internet? Nominate Them to the Internet Hall of Fame
- Florida A&M University Joins IBM-HBCU Quantum Center
- Who Are Tomorrow’s Engineers? Meet Five with Big Ideas (Tufts)
- Q&A: Rutgers University’s Tina Pappas on Improving Diversity in Higher Ed (EdTech)
- New San Diego Partnership Supports Diversity and Excellence in STEM (SDSU)
- How Computers See Us: Microsoft Fellow Working to Curb Discrimination by AI (CU Boulder)
- Oklahoma Teachers Receive Internet2 Community Anchor Program’s Distance Learning Scholarship
- Trusted CI Begins Engagement with FABRIC
- Monique Sendze Named Finalist for Colorado Public Sector CIO of the Year (Colorado School of Mines)
- Scene at MIT: A Black Computing Pioneer Takes his Place in Technology History
- Inside the Career of Longtime Engineering Professor James West (Johns Hopkins University)
- Researchers Harness Quantum Weirdness to Speed the Search for Dark Matter (UC Berkeley)
- First In Texas: A&M Research Tops $1 Billion Mark
- Trusted CI and SGCI Collaborate to Secure the Galaxy Science Gateway Platform
- Lightening the Data Center Energy Load (UC San Diego)
- Tina Eliassi-Rad, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern, was Recently Named One of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics
- Two Clemson Computing and Information Technology Employees Selected for National Technology Leadership Roles
- CEN Congratulates Internet2 CAP Scholarship Recipients
- Jefferson Teacher Wins Virtual Learning Scholarship for Her Kindergarten Class (The Muscatine Journal)
- Team Led by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Physicist Wins Major Supercomputer Time to Help Develop Fusion Energy
- The Diversity Problem in Science (Duke Research Blog)
- Digital Inclusion in a Time of Coronavirus: New Report Explores the State of Digital Access and Rural Internet in Indiana (Purdue University)
- Tribal Colleges Receive Support to Fight COVID-19 (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
- Internet Society Foundation Awards $1M in Research Grants Studying the Future of the Internet
Send feedback and share your institution’s stories for consideration to saly@internet2.edu.